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Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
610 AM CST Wed Feb 21 2018
.SHORT TERM...(Today and Tonight)
Issued at 316 AM CST Wed Feb 21 2018
High pressure centered over the state will gradually drift east
today with low level flow remaining westerly. While this would favor
mixing, recent snow cover and negligible low level warm advection
will limit any warmup. High pressure continues east overnight and
flow becomes southerly ahead of the next system. Profiles begin to
saturate to varying degrees across the area through the morning
hours but at this point there is negligible forcing aloft for
precipitation prior to 12Z.
.LONG TERM...(Thursday through Tuesday)
Issued at 316 AM CST Wed Feb 21 2018
The recent long wave pattern looks to more or less remain the same
through the long term. Energy aloft will continue to dive south
along the west coast, thus keeping a western conustrof pretty much
in place. The energy then lifts out northeast across the plains. One
such system comes out on Thursday and Thursday night. The models
have been fairly consistent with this pv anomaly over the last
couple days worth of runs. So, relatively high pops look good. Pcpn
type should favor snow, but patchy freezing drizzle also looks
possible mainly before and after the main event has occurred. Snow
amounts up to 3 inches look possible based on accepted model blend
qpf values and forecast snow ratios. Heaviest snow likely to be over
northeast South Dakota and into west central Minnesota. Another
piece of energy ejects across the region on Saturday. This system
has been trending north in the last couple model runs, so the
increase in pops for Saturday look fine for now. Temperatures are
likely to be near, or a bit below normal for most of the period.
&&
.AVIATION...(For the 12Z TAFS through 12Z Thursday Morning)
Issued at 609 AM CST Wed Feb 21 2018
VFR conditions are forecast for all terminals through today.
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.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...Wind Chill Advisory until 10 AM CST /9 AM MST/ this morning for
SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051.
MN...Wind Chill Advisory until 10 AM CST this morning for MNZ039-046.
&&
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SHORT TERM...Connelly
LONG TERM...TDK
AVIATION...TDK